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Earlier this week, John and I were at IBM Tivoli Pulse 2009 for all of the exciting cloud announcements. We spend the bulk of the episode talking about those announcements, but get to other IT management news as well.

What is the self-provisioning part of IBM’s private cloud stuff? Is that just RBAs re-branded? What’s different & new?

The Consumerization of Corporate IT: It seems like private cloud driven self-service takes away some of the nasty responsibilities that the IT department has: making the internal customers feel like they own the services more so don’t look to IT to own those business services.

GroundWork 5.3 out – GroundWork seems to have wedged itself into the high-end category, competing more directly with Big 4 vendors. Is that success based on the nagios install?

Service-now.com numbers I got from last week: “Booked almost $20 million in recurring revenue in the first half of FY09. Three consecutive years of triple-digit revenue growth. Cash-flow positive for the last year and a half. 237 enterprise customers using our IT service management SaaS, most are former HP and BMC customers”

Are people more ready to run their monitoring stuff in the cloud, one Quest guy at CloudCamp Toronto said so.

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